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Yes, exactly. That's clearly folding career!
I can't believe none of you - especially Samu - got my joke...
Well I can believe that you didn't get that I fully understood it, but just didn't think you deserved any acknowledgement.
I shall make puns! "Pun" is my middle name.
No it isn't.
Does your middle name (almost) rhyme with pun? Otherwise it isn't a pun.
Yes.
Given the fact that I like to think I write in pretty much the same style here as I do on FB - with my real life - you probably have a theory about who I am.
Nice break-through of the top-10 retiring riders, based on accumulated UCI points over their careers.
No prize for guessing who is number 1.
There's certainly one missing.
Has it ever happened that 4 cycling legends like Valverde, Gilbert, Nibali & Rebellin retired in the same season?
Nothing against Porte and Dumoulin, but clearly those 4 are another caliber.
Valverde!
I want a prize.
Hehe, I take it that you agree with big wins being the measure of a great palmares then.Rebellin another caliber than Dumoulin? Hmmm... He did only win one monument.
Can't you read? You are not getting a prize.
I can read. Does that mean I'm getting a prize?
If so, can I get it in beige?
Hehe, I take it that you agree with big wins being the measure of a great palmares then.
I can read. Does that mean I'm getting a prize?
If so, can I get it in beige, please?
Nobody is getting any prizes!
I'll steal it, I know which city you live in!
Remco will be sad when he finds out!
With so many major names from last decade and a half going at a same time, it really feels like a symbolic curtain call for an entire era of cycling.
Nice break-through of the top-10 retiring riders, based on accumulated UCI points over their careers.
No prize for guessing who is number 1.
When they are listing Valverde's major accomplishment I love the "and many more" LOL I guess this filed under we don't have time to list them all. LOL